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And you lived in the wilderness for many days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he blessed you repeatedly, and I delivered you from his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, <i>and</i> the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then I sent the hornet before you, and it <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, <i>but</i> not by your sword or your bow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’ <p class="hdg">We Will Serve Yahweh Our God</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“So now, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fear Yahweh and serve Him in integrity and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>River and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If it is evil in your sight to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the people answered and said, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh to serve other gods; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>for Yahweh our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who did these great signs in our sight and kept us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve Yahweh, for He is our God.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve Yahweh, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Yahweh, to serve Him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“So now, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh, the God of Israel.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to His voice.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day and made for them a statute and a judgment in Shechem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which He spoke <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, lest you deny your God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance. <p class="hdg">Joshua’s Death and Burial</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Now it happened that after these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being 110 years old. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>survived Joshua, who knew all the work of Yahweh which He had done for Israel. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>qesitah; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> The Euphrates River<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> The Euphrates River<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>according to</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>Sea of Reeds</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>drove them out</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>reverence</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>faithfulness</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> The Euphrates River<br><span class="fnverse">27</span> Lit <i>with</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Lit <i>prolonged days after</i><br><span class="fnverse">32</span> Ancient currency, cf. Gen 33:19; Job 42:11<br><span class="fnverse">33</span> Or <i>on the hill</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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